Wedding Day, 7/1/07
I wrote this bit in 2010, and I've posted it once or twice...
"As wonderful as things are at this moment," Rabbi Wyse promised, "it will get even better, better than you could ever imagine."
Touched
by these words, I stood teary-eyed with my new husband, an expansive
rainbow colored stained glass window accentuating our loving aura. It
was indeed a magical day, and a delectable future beckoned entry.The months and years to follow, though? Not so much. Okay, when does this happily ever after thing kick in? I wondered, as life plummeted into a miserable abyss. How could a man of the cloth be so off base?
More recently, however, I learned the wisdom behind those words. The Rabbi was right, after all. It would get even better than I ever dreamed it could be. I just didn't realize it would take so long after the marriage, and the divorce, to find my happily ever after.
This is the wedding dress, blemished by my chocolate drunkenness during a book cover photo session. (See previous series.) I never expected it to be so fun. And after a long drive home (with my chocolate wedding dress in a bag and me in more normal clothes), I tossed it into its rightful new home:
With my arms out-stretched in a victory "V", I alas had the happy, healing ending to that chapter of my life and book.
Have a peaceful week, dear sillies, and take care of yourselves.
